Sc. and north. dial. Also 7 snoode (?). [Of obscure origin: the stem may be the same as that of ON. snoðinn bald (Norw. snoden bare).]
1. Smooth, sleek; even. Also absol.
c. 1480. Henryson, Fables, Wolf & Sheep, viii. He wald chais thame baith throw rouch and snod.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, V. xiii. 24. His awin heid warpit with a snod olive, Heich in a schippis forcastell [he] did stand.
a. 1585. Polwart, Flyting w. Montgomerie, 562. Foot-foundred beasts … Hes not their hair sa snod as other good.
1641. Best, Farm. Bks. (Surtees), 4. Howe to choose a good Tuppe. Lett him bee … of a snoode and goode stapple.
1692. A. Symson, in Macfarlane’s Geogr. Coll. (S.H.S.), II. 102. The long beards and awnds are separated from the corne; and the corne made, as they terme it, more snod and easie to pass through the mill.
1695. Kennett, Par. Antiq., Gloss. s.v. Snodde, Wheat ears are said to be snod when they have no beard or awns. And a tree is snod when the top is cut smooth off.
1781. J. Hutton, Tour to Caves (ed. 2), Gloss. 96. Snod, smooth.
1790. Mrs. Wheeler, Westmld. Dial. (1821), 18. Hees a lile stiff fello, wie a varra snod feace.
1862. C. C. Robinson, Dial. Leeds, 416. A snod piece o’ cloath—as snod as a bit o’ silk!
Comb. 1855. Waugh, Life & Local., 201. Rough and free as so many snod-backed young modiwarps.
1898. A. Ollivant, Owd Bob, xii. 117. Ye ox-limbed, snod-faced profleegit!
2. Of persons: Neat, tidy, trim, smart, spruce.
1691. Ray, N. C. Words, 66. Snod,… neat, handsome.
1719. Ramsay, To Arbuckle, 71. A black-a-vic’d snod dapper fallow.
1756. Mrs. Calderwood, Jrnl. (1884), 194. The niece was a little, snod, fair lass.
1822. Galt, Provost, xxvi. A tight and snod serving lassie.
1889. Barrie, Window in Thrums, 14. Here comes the minister himsel’, an’ very snod he is.
b. Of things: Neat, trim, in good order.
1717. Ramsay, Elegy Lucky Wood, iv. She … kept her housie snod and bein.
1785. Hutton, Bran New Wark, 3. The gentleman that treads in black snod pumps.
1819. W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d (1827), 41.
| His velvet breeks, as red as fire, | |
| The snoddest pairt o’ his attire, | |
| Whilk a’ the nations do admire. |
1837. R. P. Gillies, Recoll. Scott, III. ix. 199. I see ye’re admiring how snod the library looks there.
1894. Crockett, Raiders, xxii. 163. My clothes were clean brushed and exceedingly neat and snod.
3. Comfortable, snug, cosy. Also as quasi-adv.
1695. Kennett, Par. Antiq., Gloss. s.v. Snodde, To lie snod and snug.
1888. Barrie, When a Man’s Single (1900), 91/2. ‘Ay,’ he said, with a chuckle, ‘but I’ve a snod bit cornery up there for mysel’.’
